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Feb 14, 2017 · But that does not mean that they are not connected to Amos 4:6-11, as well. Rather, verses 12-13 link Amos 4 and Amos 5 together into a larger unit. This is a problem for standard diachronic analyses of Amos, which, as far as I can tell, seek to divide Amos up into a series of loosely related or even unrelated discrete oracles.
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1. (Amos 4:1) Amos describes the indulgent women of Israel. “Bring wine, let us drink!”. a. You cows of Bashan: Amos wasn’t trained as a prophet, he was a simple herdsman and farmer. When he wanted to get the point across to the indulgent women of Israel, he called them fat cows. The area of Bashan — in the northern part of Israel, the ...
May 28, 2006 · The Point of No Return Amos 4:1-13. Text Comment. v.1 We are not given a new description of Israel’s sin and unbelief in the opening verses of chapter 4. Rather, the previous indictment that the prophet has given against the nation of Israel is summed up in two sharply focused pictures, the first a wealthy Israelite home (4:1-3), the second a ...
Mar 4, 2013 · Amos 4:1-13: “Yet You Did Not Return to Me”. This is the second of Amos’s three prophetic speeches against Israel. They each begin with “Hear this word” (3:1; 4:1; 5:1). The first announced God’s coming visit in judgment against Israel while the third will voice lament. The second highlights divine patience and persistence in ...
Jun 11, 2006 · Indeed, as Amos makes a point of saying in chapter 3, it is precisely because Israel is God’s people that her judgment will be so severe. In chapter 4 Amos recounted the many times the Lord had sought to call Israel back to himself, all to no avail. Indeed, Israel had passed the point of no return. There was no longer hope of her restoration.
Gilgal was the place where Israel’s spiritual reproach was rolled away in the days of Joshua (Joshua 5:1-12). Beersheba was connected to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Genesis 21:22-33, 26:23-33, 46:1-5). ii. There is a play on words in the phrase for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing. It doesn’t come ...
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Verse 6. Amos, as well as the Lord (Amos 5:4), invited the Israelites to seek the Lord by doing good and refraining from evil so they might live (cf. Amos 5:14-15). The alternative would be God’s judgment breaking forth and unquenchably consuming the whole house of Joseph (i.e., the Northern Kingdom, whose main tribe was Ephraim, a son of ...
